listen to this. (best quality, ignore the fan video)
"If i find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy, i can only conclude that i was not made for here"
A very serious little girl, growing up my mom always told me that God has commanded us to hope on my more despairing days. That statement never made complete sense to me, that is until i read C.S. Lewis' discourse on Hope in Mere Christianity.
Lewis explains, "A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not...a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do." Hope is at the core of what it means to be Christian.
i've struggled with this idea, especially on days when i'm feeling particularly gloomy. God isn't saying that He forbids us from feeling sorrow. After all, He is the ultimate Man of Sorrow, acquainted with grief.
Rather, our hope in Christ is our hope that someday we will experience True Reality, that our sorrow-burdened souls can be made light.
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